Jiang Ji felt that Mojing should really thank her for her emotional stability, which allowed her to face this social death with a smile.
Withstanding the gazes from the three ghosts and one person who said, "I didn't expect you to have this habit behind our backs," she stretched out her tense toes and said slowly, "Don't do this fancy stuff... Just turn on the power saving mode from now on."
Magic Mirror: “…Oh.”
You are still feeling aggrieved, right? Jiang Ji resisted the urge to curse.
Let the magic mirror show the key points of what happened in this strange county, including the bad things done by these three men.
The gray shadow snapped his fingers, and the blood-red vortex gradually enlarged, and the entire mirror surface turned into a hideous red.
The blood-red dissipated and turned into lines of text, telling the past of Shangshan County buried in history.
At first, Shangshan County was not called this name. It was only changed to Shangshan County in the early years.
It’s been so long that not many people remember it now. Its original name was “Yinhuai County”.
Yinhuai County?
When Jiang Ji saw it, he was amazed at how mysterious this name was.
According to the county annals, many years ago, a hunter from Yinhuai County accidentally discovered an abandoned temple on the mountain while out hunting.
The deserted temple is dilapidated and the being enshrined inside is neither a god nor a Buddha. It is not the Wutong God worshipped in the south, but a real bandit leader who existed in history. He committed all kinds of crimes, including robbery and looting, and caused great resentment among the people in the neighboring counties. He was later wiped out by soldiers and officers from several local counties.
This man's name is Fang Zhi, but don't get me wrong, he has nothing to do with the Fang family in Shangshan County.
Fang Zhi's hands were stained with too much blood, and the public anger was not quelled even after his death. His body was hung on a locust tree at the gate of Yinhuai County by the long-resentful people, left to be exposed to the wind and sun and to be cursed by thousands of people.
It was clearly a severe winter, but Fang Zhi's body rotted very quickly.
On the third day, his rotten cervical vertebrae broke and he fell from the tree.
The head rolled into the well and the body fell to another place. When it was found by a night watchman passing by, the body was still crawling towards the well, as if trying to pick up its head.
After seeing this scene, the villagers of Yinhuai County prepared to send people to collect the remains and throw them into a mass grave as soon as daybreak.
The sky was just beginning to dawn and the crowing of roosters broke the silence of the night.
Fang Zhi's body mysteriously disappeared.
Residents living nearby said that they saw a stiff and slow black shadow walking out of the city that night, and said that Fang Zhi’s resentment was too heavy and he rose from the dead.
Some people said that he was stolen away at night by the remnants of bandits hiding nearby, while others said that he was eaten by nearby ghosts. The rumors became more and more outrageous, and later some people even said that he was absorbed by the old locust tree... There are many different opinions.
But no matter what, Fang Zhi has been dead for so long, and now a temple dedicated to him has been found on the mountain?
This is obviously not a formal temple.
There are several types of folk temples, including official temples, wild temples, and ghost temples.
The real gods are naturally enshrined in the official temple. Taoism usually calls it a "guan", Buddhism calls it a "temple" or "temple", etc. When you step into this kind of place, you will feel calm and peaceful, as if your body and mind have been cleansed. When you are in it, you will only feel quiet and peaceful. This is the official temple.
The wild temple is also called "** Temple".
The deities enshrined in them are usually some great immortal, some great king, some real person, most of whom are famous local figures, or those who have given some money to the villagers to build a statue of their body and a temple after their death. They also include some wild spirits or strange objects, including trees, animals, ornaments and stone sculptures.
Making wishes in such places seems to be more effective than in real temples, but in fact most people are incurring a sinister debt without realizing it.
Then there is the ghost temple.
What is enshrined inside are not gods or Buddhas, but ghosts.
The shrine in Fuso that enshrines war criminals was formerly called the "Shoukonsha".
Ghost temples enshrine clay sculptures, or broken armor, a skeleton, and things used by the deceased in life... Compared to orthodox temples, these temples are often very small, mostly just a small niche on the roadside, and look obviously cheap. The statues only make people feel eerie and strange, such as an old man with two heads, a child with a face behind his head, a young woman, and a baby with an umbilical cord. The expressions of the statues are also very strange, as if they are smiling but not smiling. It feels chilly and chilly when you enter in the daytime. This is a ghost temple.
So many years have passed, and I still know that the villagers in Fang Zhi have passed away... Death is like the extinguishing of a light.
The living people had no hatred towards this notorious bandit leader, but they would not tolerate a ghost temple standing on the mountain.
So a group of people went up the mountain with tools to demolish the ghost temple. But after these young men went up the mountain, they never came back.
Several waves of people went to Yinhuai County one after another, and several waves of young and strong men were killed one after another. Among the last group of people who went up the mountain were several master wizards who were invited from other places by several local wealthy families at a large price, but they still failed to escape.
Now the villagers were completely at a loss and could only allow this haunted temple to remain on the mountain.
As time went by, the people of Yinhuai County found that as long as they did not go up the mountain with the intention of demolishing the temple, Fang Zhi would not make things difficult for them.
But from then on, the elders warned their children not to go up the mountain. The story became more and more outrageous, and even several nearby counties heard about it. The mountain became a barren mountain.
Later, a gambler named Li San from Yinhuai County accidentally entered a ghost temple.
He was a brave man. He had drunk a little wine and pretended to make a wish to the clay statue in a confused and incoherent manner, asking it to give him a son.
Not long after, his wife really became pregnant.
People began to not believe that Li San and his wife had not had a child for so many years, so they could have one just by making a wish?
With this idea in mind, the neighbors saw with their own eyes that Li San's wife was pregnant for ten months and gave birth to a big fat boy.
This time, the wealth code of this county was grasped. Many people could not help but rush up the mountain to make wishes, and more and more people's wishes came true.
Some people have also found that making a wish to the clay statue in exchange for something they own is more effective.
Land deeds, property, wife and children, and one’s own life span…
The more valuable it is, the more effective it is.
That year, Yinhuai County, which had always been at the bottom of the list, had a crop harvest several percent higher than that of other counties, and the locust plague did not cause any losses.
One day, the blind old Taoist in the City God Temple suddenly ran out like a madman and told the villagers who had already fallen into a frenzy that if they made promises to the ghost and could not fulfill them, they would be punished. The ghost would come to take away its things on the 15th day of the seventh month when the gates of hell were wide open.
People don't agree